An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

After Afghanistan

Some wars are lost in a matter of moments, others stretch on
indefinitely. The defeat in Afghanistan crept up silently on the
national consciousness and even though we are negotiating with the
Taliban, the "D" word is hardly used by anyone.

According to Obama, in one of his interminable speeches which all run
together and sound the same, there really isn't a war, just a mission,
and the old mission is now becoming a new sort of mission, and the
missions, all of them, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, have been
successful which is why we are wrapping them up, except that we aren't
really. And that's about as clear as the message from the big white
building with the neatly mowed lawn out front gets, except for the part
about how its occupant singlehandedly parachuted into Pakistan, killed
Bin Laden, and then stopped off for some curry and a humanitarian award.

Had McCain won in 2008, we would no doubt he hearing a lot about the "D"
word and the quagmire in Afghanistan. But the "Q" word doesn't really
get mentioned either. No war has been lost. Only a mission is ending.
And missions, unlike wars, can be defined in so many creative ways that
it's hard to know what to make of them. It's easy to tell when a war has
been lost, but a mission can never be lost, only renamed. And renaming
is what Obama did to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Those wars
weren't lost; they're only hiding out in the history books under new
names and identities.

Wars are usually remembered according to the proclivities of their
historians. The history books tend to record the Republican presidents
of the last hundred years as either losing wars or winning wars that
weren't worth winning. Democrats however usually win every one.

The Korean War and the Vietnam War were not that far in perception at
the time, but are worlds apart in the history books. Had John F. Kennedy
lived to serve out two terms and then passed on the big chair to his
brother, would the history books even record that the United States lost
the Vietnam War? Or would it, like Afghanistan, have gone down as a
story about a difficult temporary intervention that ended successfully
under the leadership of a wise and caring president?

It is difficult to imagine the left's narrative of the last century with
such a big and meaty chunk taken out of it. What would have become of
Oliver Stone's career without the JFK assassination and the mythology of
a cruel and senseless war in Vietnam? Or imagine the last decade if
Biden and Gore had managed to talk Clinton into going after Saddam. As
entertaining as such speculations might be, renaming missions and
tampering with the history books does not alter the outcome of wars.

From the early days, the left had gloated that Afghanistan would become
another Vietnam. And like the appointment in Samarra, in attempting to
escape that Vietnamness, it repeated many of the follies of Vietnam and
few of its triumphs, failing to press the advantage while expending
thousands of lives based on abstract theories hatched by the bright boys
in Washington and fraudulent books passed on by the wives of generals
to their husbands.

We are now in the Afghanistanization stage, hanging around a country for
no particular purpose, except that we aren't very good at departures
and the men who made this mess still think that Karzai and his crew can
make this work if we provide them with some more training and air
support without being shot in the back.

And when we have finally left and Karzai's cobbled together government
collapses, its ministers absconding to Paris and Pakistan with suitcases
full of stolen aid dollars, what comes after the war?

The old conflict aimed at denying Al Qaeda one base of operations had
been outdated a few years after it began. That was something that Bush
instinctively understood and that his critics have only slowly become
aware of. Al Qaeda is not a country or an ethnic group. It is a
religious vanguard that was always meant to serve as the core of an
international Islamist terrorist movement. That function had been
fulfilled long before an old man watching porn in a covert compound with
no authority over anyone except his many wives was finally put down the
hard way.

Al Qaeda, like the Communist Party, can rise anywhere. It rose in Iraq,
in Somalia, in Mali, in Syria and in countless other places. Like Burger
King, the franchise possibilities are endless and the brand name
recognition is universal. And unlike Burger King, you don't even need to
pay for the privilege of using the name. Set off a few bombs or kill a
few foreigners and watch the money start rolling in from the fat sheiks
of the oil-swollen Gulf who have never slit the throat of anything
larger than a goat, but like having their own terror armies.

Obama, despite his third culture cred and his ability to carry around
important books about world events while on vacation, has no clue what
to do about any of that. Obama at War is really a dumber Bush at War,
rehashing Bush era ideas and tactics with completely botched
implementations. With Kabul in the rear-view mirror, all he has left is
Bush's policy of targeted drone strikes on Al Qaeda terrorist leaders.

The only other foreign policy idea that the Obama crew brought to the
table, aside from ending the support for the dictators, which ushered in
the Arab Spring and the Islamization of the region, was to avoid ground
wars and focus on limited drone strikes and intelligence operations.

This approach has been rebranded as the smarter and smaller war. A true
conflict for the 21st with Muslim grad students in Yemen chatting on
XBox Live with Muslim teenagers in Jersey City to convince them to make
and carry liquid explosives on board a plane in tiny shampoo bottles
while overhead a drone piloted by a formerly unemployed middle-aged professional skier
with a degree in drone piloting from Kansas State hunts for them
silently in their clan territories. It's the world of a William Gibson
novel, except it's also our world now.

The targeted strike approach was largely borrowed from the Israeli
playbook. Like Israel, the United States is in a tangled conflict that
won't end any time soon. And like Israel, it's relying on saving some
lives and weakening the terrorist infrastructure by taking out a few
leaders here and there. Israel's targeted strikes on Hamas and Islamic
Jihad leaders never ended the conflict, but aborted more than a few
terrorist plots by killing the bomb-makers and planners who were making
them happen.

The actual conflict did not end. Neither did the attacks. Rather than
shooting soldiers, Israel was shooting officers, because shooting
soldiers required extended ground engagements and occupations that had
become politically untenable. The United States has embraced the same
strategy for the same reasons using technology that came out of Israel.
But it hasn't given much thought to what comes after that.

The failure of the targeted strikes and arrests of terrorist leaders led
Israel to pursue a physical separation through barriers and fences. The
terrorists compensated for that with rockets and shelling. That led
Israel to develop the Iron Dome, a defensive anti-rocket system. The
suicide bomber, once ubiquitous, became a rarity, but the attacks have
grown more powerful as the terrorists used the territory that they
gained through Israeli withdrawals to deploy heavier long-range weapons
that can reach major cities.

If the United States follows this same pattern of withdrawal and
fortification, then by 2028, there might be an actual Fortress America
guarded by anti-missile systems against Pakistani, Iranian and Egyptian
nukes. And that scenario, as troubled as it sounds, is probably one of
the better ones.

Israel withdrew from physical territories opening the way for a Hamas
takeover of Gaza. Obama withdrew from geopolitical territories,
announcing in Cairo that the United States would no longer support the
undemocratic dictators of the Muslim world unless they had oil. Hamas,
or its Egyptian parent organization, took over Egypt. Across the region,
Islamist regimes rose and American allies fell. The Islamist winners of
democratic elections turned into dictators leaving the United States in
the awkward position of supporting new dictators while being jeered and
denounced by the Arab Street.

What's the next step? It doesn't appear that there is one. Geniuses like
Brennan only thought as far ahead as draining Muslim anger by rewarding
political Islamists while using drone warfare to decimate violent
Islamists. Not only is this distinction mostly imaginary, but the rise
of political Islamists has made for more Al Qaeda takeovers and more
work for the drones in North Africa.

The plan has failed and the second term is underway. It is very doubtful
that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan
for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan
certainly does not. Secretary of State John Kerry is spending a lot of
time talking about Global Warming while waiting a week for a callback
from Russia. It's hard to think of a worse bunch of people in whose
hands to put the fate of the nation and the world.

Both Bush and Obama largely missed the point of September 11, which is
that it matters less how many training camps Al Qaeda has in some desert
where there are more drugs and RPGs than people, but how many
operatives they have in the United States. The terrorist attacks carried
out by Al Qaeda in America all required that their operatives either be
in the United States or have permission to enter it. The truly
dangerous training camps aren't in Mali or in Afghanistan; they are in
Jersey City and Minneapolis. The easiest way to stop the next Al Qaeda
terrorist attack is to end immigration from the Muslim world.

That is not a position that any presidential candidate, Republican or
Democrat, is likely to run on any time soon. Instead anyone who wants
the job is salivating at the prospect of pinning Green Cards to anyone
with a university degree. Articulating it is taboo even in Israel. And
yet after Afghanistan, the United States might find that it has no
choice but to build that southern border fence and to slash immigration
from the more explosive parts of the world. That revelation may not come
tomorrow, but it likely will come.

In Israel, it was Rabin who stated that Gaza had to be taken out of Tel
Aviv and who began the construction of the West Bank security barrier
because he realized that terrorism would destroy the peace process. An
American Rabin may well be a liberal who is forced to come to the
realization that the only way to avoid constant conflicts with the
Muslim world is to begin cutting off the flow of Muslim immigrants to
America.

Such a realization, if it ever comes, is still a long way off. For now
the drone war remains a clumsy fallback position. As long as there are
no major terrorist attacks, the limited drone strikes are enough to
satisfy most Americans. But when one of the Al Qaeda franchises begins
poring over blueprints of a major American landmark and another
September 11 follows, then the question that has been held in abeyance
after Afghanistan will suddenly reappear. What do we do now?

Daniel
Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a Shillman
Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member